José Valim returns to continue with part 2 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 2, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. We still manage to sneak in discussions about some new things in Elixir 1.13 and the upcoming release. We go deeper on GenStage, Registry, and growing up through production releases. We also learn about the history with unicode while touching on the recent unicode security issues that hit everywhere. We get some behind the scenes insights about the Elixir formatter and the complex logic required to bring ExUnit's pretty diff features, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1491835261705199620 – GitHub code search based navigation now works with Elixir
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1491833991401463809 – José Valim credits the work and says the 10th language to get this feature.
https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/445 – GitHub public roadmap item - Advisory Database, Elixir/mix support
https://github.com/dependabot/elixir-security-advisories – Dependabot Elixir security advisories
https://github.com/readme/featured/server-side-languages-for-front-end – GitHub published an article feature Elixir and LiveView
https://anchor.fm/helloerlang – New Erlang focused podcast called “Hello Erlang!”
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1492464780480856069 – New versions of makeup, flow, nimble_parsec, nimble_pool, and plug were released.
https://github.com/elixir-makeup/makeup – Makeup is a "generic syntax highlighter" used in ExDoc
https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_parsec
https://github.com/dashbitco/flow
https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82 – Part 1 - Episode 82
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.4/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.4
https://elixirforum.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
https://hexdocs.pm/flow/Flow.html
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html#async_stream/3
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Registry.html
https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.5/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.5
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.3 released
https://trojansource.codes/
https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.Pry.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4uE-jTB_Uk – The Feature That No One Knew About in Elixir 1.5 - José Valim
https://github.com/rrrene/credo
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.6/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.6
https://medium.com/@JakeBeckerCode/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server-d449bbbdfc01
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Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog
https://erlef.org/news/ – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation news

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